[Python-Dev] Allocation of shape and strides fields in Py_buffer (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Dec 9 06:46:14 CET 2008


Antoine Pitrou wrote:

(of course complex schemes can be devised where the callee maintains its own separate storage for shape and strides, but I don't think we want to go there)

But that's exactly where you're supposed to be going. If the object providing the buffer has variable-sized shape and strides arrays, it has to manage the memory for them somehow.

-- Greg



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